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Gulf states continue quest for foreign land
- Reuters
- 17 July 2009
"We have no choice but to continue leasing and buying land," said Abdullah Al Obaid, head of the strategy unit at the Ministry of Agriculture in Saudi Arabia.
Into Africa
- Financial Times
- 17 July 2009
While sovereign wealth funds have been buying up tracts of land, AgriTerra has been taking a different tack.
"Land grabbing" : l’accaparement de terres en Afrique se poursuit
- cDurable.info
- 17 July 2009
Ouyang Riping, PDG d’une société agricole chinoise, a une mission : transformer le Sénégal en grenier à sésame… pour la Chine ! Dakar lui cède 60 000 hectares pour cultiver et exporter le sésame vers Pékin. En échange, les chinois apprennent aux paysans sénégalais à obtenir deux récoltes de riz par an. Coopération originale ou marché de dupes ?
Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report Q3 2009
- Companies and Markets
- 17 July 2009
2009 is the year characterised by Arab' 'land grabs', where developing countries have been targeted by the kingdom as having the potential to feed the swelling food demands of Saudi Arabia
Seminar on Commercial Pressures on Land - Utrecht, 8 July 2009
- ILC
- 16 July 2009
On 8 July 2009, almost a hundred development practitionners from all over the world convened in Utrecht to participate to the DPRN Expert Seminar “Commercial Pressures on Land: rethinking policies and practice for development”.
Opposition vs government’s leasing local farms to foreign companies gains ground
- Business Mirror
- 16 July 2009
A militant legislator has expressed alarm over what he described as escalating land-lease agreements by the Philippines with other countries
S. Korea leases 94,000 ha in Mindoro
- Inquirer
- 16 July 2009
A southwestern province in South Korea has leased 94,000 hectares of farmland in Mindoro to grow 10,000 tons of corn a year for feed for 25 years, a provincial government official said on Tuesday. In Manila, however, agriculture officials were caught unaware of such lease agreement
Africa and the end of hunger
- Pambazuka
- 16 July 2009
Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
Arab states in 'neo-colonial' food grab
- UPI
- 16 July 2009
A Kuwaiti company partly owned by the emirate's sovereign wealth fund is preparing to join other Gulf states in buying up agricultural land in Asia, part of a global land grab to ensure food security.
Aumenta el interés extranjero en la compra de tierras agrícolas brasileñas
- Radioagencia NP
- 16 July 2009
Los inversionistas de Arabia Saudita y de China están cada vez más interesados en adquirir tierras agrícolas en Brasil.
APC & ILPS kick off 5-mo Asia-wide Peasants' Caravan for Land & Livelihood
- APC
- 16 July 2009
The Asian Peasant Coalition and International League of Peoples’ Struggle kick off a peasants’ caravan themed: “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform & Peoples’ Food Sovereignty”
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform Emergency Action: Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
- FIAN
- 16 July 2009
Coordinated action towards the president of the Malagasy High Authority of the Transition supporting the demands of the Malagasy people, as well as towards the president of the Republic of Korea recalling his country's extra-territorial human rights obligations in these projects.
SKorea leases RP farmland in food security bid
- AFP
- 16 July 2009
A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in the central Philippines to grow corn as part of Seoul's bid for food security, officials said Thursday.
Land scramble by rich 'may lead to conflict'
- Reuters
- 15 July 2009
A scramble by wealthy states to snap up developing world farmland to ensure their own food security -- especially in Africa -- could trigger conflict in poorer countries, World Food Programme deputy executive director Sheila Sisulu said on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt. "I fear... conflict," she said.
Offshore farms for gulf food self-sufficiency hampered by hungry masses
- The National
- 15 July 2009
Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.